Of course they are!Posted on 08/05/2019 5:54:04 AM PDT by NOBO2012
I knew it! Citizens in countries with more butter are happier.
Of course they are!
Even lobsters are happier with butter
The article graphs countries’ happiness index against their butter availability and shows a clear, statistical link between self-reported levels of life satisfaction and per-capita butter supply. Interestingly, I note that the journalistic community that normally doesn’t bother to note, let alone question, the difference between causation and correlation in other crackpot “studies” they report on takes the trouble to ask here “is it causation or correlation?” Their skepticism kicks in only when one of their touchstone beliefs like “fat is bad” or “Orange man bad” is challenged.
Here is my own, off the top of my head, recollection of things the experts have once deigned either good or bad for us, but have subsequently changed their minds about (in some instances twice): coffee, eggs, salt, saturated fats, butter, nuts, potatoes, carbohydrates, whole milk, coconut oil, red meat, red wine, chocolate, baby aspirin, multitasking, plastic bags, toilet paper….
The take away for today: if butter makes you happy - and why wouldn’t it? - eat more of it.
The Ohio State Fair Butter Cow
In fact, why don’t we just ship all of our surplus butter to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Iran, and every other ‘sh*thole country that wants to invade and/or destroy us. Maybe if they’re happier they’ll just stay home and make their own countries great. And if that happens maybe all the illegal aliens in our midst will go home.
ET, in butter
Now forgive me while I go enjoy a Canadian butter tart with my covfefe.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
The author should have posted a recipe for those butter tarts. ;)
Oh no. Can’t get butter tart image out of my mind!
Much better than store-bought, dontcha know?.
Or so they say.
Suckered me into buying the contraption pictured above. Very expensive. Haven't used it once, but it even looks cool with all the dust on it, lol!
My favorite biscuits are pillsbury grands flaky layer. Of course I really can’t eat gluten or dairy products anymore. I eaten gluten free (aka fake) bread with ‘vegan’ “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” (vegan because most margarine has some dairy)
Food is barely edible these days.
home made butter is good! try it
It was primarily Lutheran missionaries who convinced Japanese in Hokkaido to become dairy farmers, and today milk, butter, and similar dairy products are quite commonplace throughout the country. Whether Japanese today are happier than they were 150 years ago because almost all of them "stink of butter" now is of course debatable.
This is the perfect opportunity to mention my new favorite baseball team
THE MONTGOMERY BISCUITS
They have a club for their young fans called
THE LIL CRUMBS.
Maybe we should hook the Chinese on butter?
They had various types of bait-- melted butter, fish scraps, sheep dung and even margarine. Those which attracted a lot of flies were emptied out and rebaited every day when she took me with her to gather eggs. The chickens seemed to enjoy the protein supplement of dead flies laced with leftover bait and grandma would always explain that margarine was a very poor bait because even the flies avoided it. This, she explained, was why all the meals served to her grandchildren in the house used real butter and not margarine. Because if the flies shunned it, then so should you.
My aunt used to make it on the farm. It WAS delicious. But that was 50 years ago and I don’t think I ever saw her actually make it (the boys were out in the field, not in the kitchen). So it’s sure to be a disappointment if I make it; among other things, she used cream right out of the cow (run thru a separator first, of course). Can’t get cream like that nowadays.
Keeping the BUTTER is super-healthy (and don’t even think about ‘butter substitutes’). But throw out the biscuit, it’s basically poison to most human bodies - being solid carbs, and then worst of the carbs, modern-day hybridized wheat (even worse than sugar).
It looks like a little pecan pie. Butter in the crust and butter in the filling = YUM.
“...and grandma would always explain that margarine was a very poor bait because even the flies avoided it.”
Margarine is basically an industrial lubricant in an appealing package, great for one’s garage, but use at own risk in your body.
She also made bacon, eggs and sausage every day and would keep the grease to make other meals with. In fact, she pretty much broke all the dietary rules that the so-called nutritionists wold lecture us about.
She lived well into her 90s and was active right to the very end.
Have you tried A2 milk? I can’t overdo it but I can tolerate it much better than regular milk.
get some heavy cram, add some salt, and shake.
15 minutes later you have butter
One of the few taxes which served a noble purpose in an era when butter was unfairly demonized. One of my Dad's favorite foods was what he called pan toast . . . a slice or two of white bread to soak up all the grease after frying eggs and bacon. He had zero heart problems, but died in his 70s from radiation poisoning acquired while serving Uncle Sam.
Okay, I’m going to try it. But do you know where I can get my hands on a Brown Swiss milk cow? Have to try to reproduce aunt Martha’s butter recipe to a tee ... just kidding!
No, I may even try your butter recipe first. Very simple. I like that. And I bet it IS much, much better than store-bought, thanks.
In my family, we have a saying, “ Mo’ butter, mo’ better! “
There are few times when it isn’t the truth.
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